Button.



W. E. BENNETT.

\ BUTTON.

. (Application filed Oct. 22, 1990.)

(No Model.)

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Patnted Jan. 8, l90l.

UNHED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WALTER E. BENNETT, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE MORLEY BUTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAOO, MAINE, AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,394, dated January 8, 1901.

Application filed October 22, 1900. Serial No. 33,839. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER E. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham 5 and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved button adapted for use in upholstering and like arts, in which the fastener consists of two parallel legs or staples depending from the button-head.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank forming one of the staples.

Fig. 2

is a side elevation of said blank. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modified form of the blank forming one of the staples.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of said modified form of blank. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the button-head of my improved button, the divergent deflection of the prongs of the staple being shown in elevation.

Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the button-head of my improved button, the lateral deflection of the prongs of the staple being shown in elevation.

Fig. 7 is a perspec- GUS.

Said staples a a are cut from long narrow strips into the shape shown in Fig. 1, having their clenching ends bifurcated, forming the sharp prongs b b in each staple, and

the penetrating ends pointed, as at c.

The

staples may be made with great economy and speed and without waste of material by cutting ofi the blanks from a strip of sheet metal with a V-shaped tool, forming at one and the same time the prongs of the bifurcated end of one staple and the point of the penetrating end of the next staple.

The interiors of the faces of the prongs thus diverge, as at d d, from the crotch toward the points, so that when forced into a solid penetrable object, such as the button-head A, they deflect themselves outwardly or divergently in the direction of the plane of the staple, as is shown in Fig. 5. The prongs should also be beveled laterally on their inner faces, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 at e, or it will be sufficieut if laterally beveled only at their points,as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 at e. Said lateral beveling from one flat side of the staple toward the other, either all along theirinner faces or only at their points, may be accomplished by a secondary cutting of the prongs, or in the form of prongs illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, where the lateral beveling is along the inner faces of the prongs, it can be accomplished by the primary cutting of the prongs by the use of a V-shaped tool or chisel whose cutting edge is bluntly beveled on its outer sides and whose inner sides are straight to the edge. The bevel of the outer sides will be imparted by pressure to the inner faces of the prongs when the staple is being out, while the straight faces of the inner sides of the tool will cut the pointed end of the prong straight. As a result of such lateral beveling the prongs will deflect themselves in a direction laterally to the direction of their plane as well as divergently in the direction of their plane. If a lateral deflection inward toward the center of the button-head is desired, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the bevels e 6 should be faced outwardly toward the periphery of the button-head. If the opposite lateral deflection is desired, as shown in Fig. 8, the bevels e e should be faced inwardly toward each other. To form a button, I take a suitably-shaped button-head A, made of papier-mach or compressed wood fiber, and by means of a press force the bifurcated ends of two parallel staples, shaped as above described, into the button head with sufiicient pressure to completely bury the prongs b b in the buttonhead. By this operation the prongs b b, be- 5 ing in effect beveled in two directions, deflect and clench themselves, as above described, in the material of the button-head, forming a strong and inexpensive button. In Fig. 7 I have shown in perspective the position of the prongs clenched in a button-head and having their lateral deflection inward, and in Fig. 8 I have shown in perspective the position of the prongs clenched in a button-head and having their lateral deflection outward.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material, two staples each having a bifurcated end, the inner faces of the prongs of the bifurcated end being divergent and beveled on-one side, and the prongs being embedded in the button-head.

2. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material, two staples each having a bifurcated end, the prongs of the bifurcated end being bent divergently and also laterally to the plane of the staple, and embedded in the button-head.

3. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material, two staples each having a bifurcated end, the points of the prongs of the bifurcated end being beveled on one side, and said prongs being bent divergently in the plane of the staple and also laterally to the plane of the staple, and embedded in the button-head.

4:. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material, two staples each having a bifurcated end, the two prongs of each bifurcated end being deflected outwardly with relation to each other, and also laterally with relation to the plane of the staple, the lateral deflection being opposite in the two staples, and said bifurcated ends being embedded in the button-head.

5. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrable material, two staples, each having a bifurcated interiorly-beveled end forming two sharp prongs whose ends are laterally beveled on one side, said prongs being deflected divergently with relation to each other, and laterally with relation to the plane of the staple, the lateral deflection being opposite in the two staples, said bifurcated ends being embedded in the button-head.

6. A button, consisting of a solid head of penetrablc material two substantially parallel staples each having a deflecting bifurcated end formed by the removal of a V-shaped piece of the material, the points of the two prongs of the bifurcated end being slightly beveled on one side and the two prongs of each end being divergently deflected and also being laterally deflected in the direction opposite to the lateral deflection of the other staple, and embedded in the button-head- Signed by me at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, this 19th day of October, 1900.

\VALTER E. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

EDWARD H. ADAMS, KATHERINE R. IVIILLER. 

